Prisoner who -- four years left 120 your sentence now the subject a manhunt in Arkansas. Police say happened Saturday night when convicted murderer Timothy Huffington left work the Arkansas department of corrections and Pine Bluff. During the escape -- -- scary moment please that he held a woman hostage who was able to eventually. Get away from it. Cops are searching for through heavily wooded areas on prison he's considered armed and dangerous believed to be carried a shotgun. -- was serving -- -- -- -- sentence in the murder of his ex wife in 1990.

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